| Watters, John R | Problems in developing an Ejagham orthography | 1982 | Cahiers du Département des Langues Africaines et Linguistique | Literacy and Education |
| Watters, John R | The inclusive/exclusive distinction in Ejagham | 1985 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | A phonology and morphology of Ejagham, with notes on dialect variation | 1981 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung): the case of lexical and postlexical tone on nouns | 2000 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Some phonological characteristics of Ejagham (Etung), an Ekoid Bantu language of Cameroon and Nigeria | 2001 | Grammatische analysen Afrikanischer Sprachen | Linguistics |
| Nkiri-Er?m, Ayamba; Watters, John R.; Watters, Kathie | Ara na ngan etat: Ngan ejagham 2 | 1985 | | |
| Watters, John R. | Focus and the Ejagham verb system: from syntactic to semantic sub-categorization. | 2010 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Bible translation and human dignity in Africa: the case of the Ejagham speaking people in Cameroon | 2011 | | Community Development, Missiology, Sociolinguistics, Scripture Engagement, Translation |
| Watters, John R | The expression of the locative semantic function in (Western) Ejagham | 1983 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Reduplication and the origin of high tone on noun prefixes in Ejagham | 1990 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Proto-Bantu Tense from a Benue-Congo Perspective (Bantoid, Cross River, Jukunoid) | 2018 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Proto Bantu Tense from a Benue Congo Perspective (Bantoid, Cross River, Jukunoid, Plateau, Kainji) | 2019 | | Linguistics |
| Etta Etta, Patrick; Tambe-Nchinge, Peter; Watters, John R.; Watters, Kathie | Ngan Ejagham I | 1981 | | |
| Watters, John R | The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system | 1985 | Functional grammar series | Linguistics |
